tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post5839205948037651303..comments2024-01-05T02:53:03.358-06:00Comments on American Zombie: What we die and kill for....black, gooey liquidJason Brad Berryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-50248351448803546042008-02-09T09:33:00.000-06:002008-02-09T09:33:00.000-06:00Did you hear Bush's words at CPAC? He said "prospe...Did you hear Bush's words at CPAC? He said "prosperity and peace are in the balance" in this coming election. Seriously. With a straight face. Of course, he's right, just not in the way he meant to be. <BR/><BR/>Maybe it's the end result of unbridled capitalism, this notion that any road that leads to profit is a valid road. I honestly don't know the answer, but I do agree that we're on a path that has structured into our economy, long-term conflict as a business model. The thing that angers me is that this obvious "fear pimping" is working so well, that so many just swallow it whole (like your fish dinner, above - :) - without questioning), while we continue to stir up a hornets' nest and pour gasoline on the flames of real America-hating terrorism. How can anyone believe Bush and his war in Iraq have made us safer?<BR/><BR/>I can't answer your question, though. There seems to be no end to dumbasses willing to buy into it all. Maybe if we (this mystic "we" would have to be congress, I suppose) invoked the Constitution and brought the wrath of law down on these criminals, then the tide would turn. Real justice does that sometimes. <BR/><BR/>But, I ramble. Off to make some pots and clear my mind. Happy Saturday, darlin'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-65956612711347540822008-02-08T11:42:00.000-06:002008-02-08T11:42:00.000-06:00One reason so little literature emerged form WWI i...One reason so little literature emerged form WWI is that there was so little time between it and the next one. Twenty years after WWI WWII had almost started.<BR/><BR/>One historical note, trench warfare didn't really start in WWI. There was a good bit of it during the American Civil War, especially around Petersburg, and Vicksburg.mominemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517025007146886987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-43108165979313565842008-02-08T09:38:00.000-06:002008-02-08T09:38:00.000-06:00Oh, so the Afghanistan war is about opium, eh? Int...Oh, so the Afghanistan war is about opium, eh? Interesting how the Taliban had choked off opium production big-time. Now that they're out, production is back to record levels. Follow the money!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-61116403680880606672008-02-07T20:06:00.000-06:002008-02-07T20:06:00.000-06:00Yeah, it's such a deep topic...you can go on forev...Yeah, it's such a deep topic...you can go on forever...just like the war itself.<BR/><BR/>The effect this path has on the overall psyche of the country will be devastating...compounded by the fear pimping going on domestically. But that factor doesn't compute to the idiots leading us into this hell hole. <BR/><BR/>You know first hand what that effect is. How do you make a zombie nation understand that this isn't the direction we should be headed?<BR/><BR/>I don't know...personally, I feel helpless.Jason Brad Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421813599753848735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30412896.post-60282549987566879462008-02-07T19:27:00.000-06:002008-02-07T19:27:00.000-06:00Great post (no rotten 'maters from me). Very movin...Great post (no rotten 'maters from me). Very moving, darlin'.<BR/><BR/>We even use words to distance us from the experience of war. In WWI, the soldiers were "shell shocked". Now, they have PTSD (as if "post traumatic stress disorder" isn't clinical enough - it has to be abbreviated). We hear on CNN on Sunday's about the number of "troops" killed each week (even "soldiers" would be more humanizing). What were once called "battles" are now "military actions". I could go on all night.<BR/><BR/>And instead of everyone's sons being subject to being drafted to "fight for freedom" an <I>all volunteer</I> *wink* *wink* military pays signing bonuses to desperate young people without any other resources with which to fund their futures.<BR/><BR/>I remember many years ago on NPR, hearing Tom Shales criticize Oliver Stone's <I>Born on the 4th of July</I> for being "too visceral". <I>Too visceral</I>?! As the wife of a (seriously troubled) Vietnam combat veteran, it really pissed me off. No artistic rendering of war can be <I>too visceral</I>. No artistic rendering can come close.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com